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Commonwealth v. Lee

Citations

  • 585 N.E.2d 759
  • 32 Mass. App. Ct. 85
  • 1992 Mass. App. LEXIS 136

How courts have described this case

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  • where evidence indicates that judge would have denied motion, it is not ineffective assistance if counsel failed to file such motion
  • exigent circumstances where drug sale occurred in defendant’s supermarket and surveillance without entry could not prevent money from changing hands quickly inside and evading detection
  • exigent circumstances where suspect’s son and others had just been arrested and would likely be able to contact suspect soon
  • warrantless entry permitted into basement of supermarket immediately after undercover buy with marked bills had occurred there
  • appellate court must decide “whether there is a reasonable likelihood that, if a pretrial motion to suppress had been filed, it would have been allowed”

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Judges: Dreben, Fine, Gillerman

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